these photo's are so pretty and I think the lavender border sets it off beautifully - not only that imagine the pretty perfume it would create - this is where flowers should be -in a field growing as nature intended.Dianne xx

Nathalie said," With the addition of lavender hues you almost get an overdose of colour, don't you think?"Oh! yes,...As a matter of fact, I watched a classic film with my mère called Brigadoon recently, and I almost confused your lavender hues with the plants/flowers that the lead actress Cyd Charisse,(Sp) sang about in the film called heather (hues)......Well, she actually sang about the hills where the plants grew, but I think they are two different plants.(As I shrug my shoulders and protrude my bottom lip.)

Love the prairie. Love the lavender. But not together. A prairie should just grow naturally (as it were) out of a wild field. It doesn't work with the rigid row of lavender and then that OTT (!) blowsy oleander, or whatever it is.

Owen you have a point - a large number of newly weds and whole wedding parties gather in this public garden on Saturday afternoons in spring to take photos. Who would blame them, the setting is gorgeous!Sometimes 2 and 3 couples are there at the same time, occupying various parts of the garden.

While one large lawn has been retained, this part is now out of bounds as it were, for fear of crushing the flowers - people can still walk through the alleys though and use the prairie as a background.

I think keeping a large grassy area within the garden is indispensable.